Module 3, Task 5: Integrating Grammar and Skills Teaching - Whats and Hows

 


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  Integrating grammar and skills teaching (45 minutes)

 

What can teachers do to integrate grammar and skills teaching?

Research suggests that teaching grammar “at the point of need” is the most effective. This means that in a skills-oriented lesson, teachers can weave grammar instruction in the following situations:

  • when students are preparing to complete a task or an activity;
  • as they are doing the activity and need brief input from the teacher on a particular form;
  • after the activity to refocus their attention on key patterns or vocabulary needed to complete the activity.

Integrating grammar and skills teaching involves some degree of course book adaptation. Teachers often work with materials in which skills and grammar are separated, or are not integrated in the way that will help students. Even if they work with mandatory course books, teachers can make modifications in order to meet their students’ learning needs. They can apply the SARS strategy:

S–upplement: the unit or lesson, add grammar activities when and where needed;

A-dapt: change the focus of an activity /task in the book;

R–eject: skip parts /activities that are not needed /not helping learners;

S-ubstitute: replace activities in the book with different tasks, more suitable for their students.

 

How can teachers implement the grammar and skills integration in practice?

It is always best to learn from practice. Listen to two World Learning trainers describing how they integrated grammar and skills teaching. Click HERE Download HERE to download a PDF of the transcript.

 

If you are having trouble viewing this video, or you would like to download it, click here for Part 1Links to an external site.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQl-Q77psE&t=10s 

 and Part 2Links to an external site.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30ZYJFPSMI .


Conclusion

A principled integration of grammar and skills instruction allows teachers to better address students’ needs and ultimately help them overcome learning difficulties.  By supplementing, adapting, rejecting and substituting course materials, teachers can provide the right input at the right moment and design motivating tasks that drive student learning.

 

To cite this page:

World Learning. (2019). Integrating Grammar and Skills Teaching - Whats and Hows. In “Teaching Grammar Communicatively” [MOOC].

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